Introduction to the Catalogue of the collection of calculi of the bladder : upwards of one thousand in number, besides foreign bodies, removed by operation / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
Date:
1893
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Credit: Introduction to the Catalogue of the collection of calculi of the bladder : upwards of one thousand in number, besides foreign bodies, removed by operation / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If Death followed Besults as to Recovery &c. Successful.—In three sittings. April 11, 1865.—I used Mr. Clover's exhausting bottle for the second time only, and found it very useful to remove the ddbris (the action of this instrument is more painful than that of the lithotrite; the patient not taking chloroform). Almost all his urine is passed by catheter from atony of the bladder. After a year he had again symptoms, and I removed a second stone in 1866. No return afterwards. He continued an active life until his death in 1875. I record TWO operations for this patient Successful.—Several sittings, aided by the use of Clover's bottle, he being the first patient for whom I tried it, the date being April 8, 1865. A year and a half afterwards I removed another rather large stone; after this I occasionally re- moved a phosphatic concretion, but he had eYoellpTit liPA.lth n.nd rliprl nf pio-Vif.Tr nf apoplexy. He was attended throughout by my friend Mr. C. A. Aiiin. I record TWO operations for this patient Successful.—It was a large stone for lithotrity, and required ten sittings, without chloroform. Mr. B. HiU attended this case with me, and it was seen by Dr. A. SmiDSOn. of Glasgow, and also hv V)r Vnn T-^nrp-n nf TSTpw Vnrlr T na^trl n]r\xray*'a bottle to remove some of the debris on one occasion, but it gave much pain Successful.—-He was the subject of advanced albuminuria; and I operated to relieve his sufferinETS. The stone was larp'e anH T nnftfl nin-u-pr'n l-»nf,f,lo in fiiia naaa nian o■u.'-j ou\jn\j ** aio uji-ii.L -X. uooLi \jx\j VcL D uuuuiu 1x1 uuis case, aiso to aid in removing debris. He died a little less than a year after the operation, much relieved by the removal of the stone. I saw him in consultation with Dr. Sharpe, of Norwood; and Dr. Van Buren was present at a sitting Successful.—From Naval Hospital, Plymouth. I heard from him six months after that he was well, but never received any further communications. Also seen by Dr. Van Buren, and by Dr. A. Simpson, of Glasgow Successful.—In eight sittings, as the stone was rather large ; no chloroform was taken. Sent to me by Mr. Veal, Grimsby, and seen by Dr. Van Buren. Had excellent health, and no return for six years; then slight symptoms, which increased during two years , He came to me with a fresh uric acid calculus in 1873, and was again success- fully treated by lithotrity. Living and weU now, 1879. I record two operations for this patient I crushed twice, and could find no more calculus; the bladder was evidently much thickened and diseased, and the symptoms were not much relieved. He went home to Pramlingham, Suffolk, whence his attendant, Mr. Jeaffreson, wrote me that he passed two very small fragments after his journey. Some time afterwards he died of peritonitis. Autopsy : Bladder involved in a mass of cancer on one Bide, and sacculated; no fragments of calculus remained. The death here was cleai-ly due not to the lithotrity, but to the cancer Not very successful at first; but much relieved. The prostate was verv Inrtro nnil J. could seize nothing except by using the lithotrite with reversed blades. Clover then gave hun chloroform ; I used his bottle to remove the de'bris, showing it to Dr. Van Buren who, as weU as Mr. M. B. Hill, was present. He was troubled with chrome cystitis, and six months afterwards I removed a small phosphatic calculus, not reckoned as another onprn.+iinn Snl-i<aprmonf.lTr Vio maa f^aa. f-^^-,^ j Muj.vjuxj.ci. wj^^cjxtLunjii. ouuot;t[ut)uuiy ne was iree rrom trouble, and i heard from him as being well m 1869. Seen in consultation with Dr A Simpson, of Glasgow Successful.—In six long sittings. He had been in the Birmingham Hospital under i! tiuvibeu iionoDomy, wmcn tne man reiusea, and left. I advised tHe same when to came to me, but on his refusing I consented to crush, and he made a rapid and sound recovery Medio-bilateral lithotomy : successful. He had stricture, and I could not introduce a lithotrite, so I cut him m the manner named. The stone being large, I broke it m the bladder before removing. Fragments weighed 3^ ounces; uric acid. Becovery rather slow, but ultimately he got weU